Nicholas Benson
Nicholas Benson’s translations include Attilio Bertolucci’s Winter Journey; Aldo Palazzeschi’s The Arsonist), for which he was awarded an NEA Translation Fellowship; and, with Elena Coda, Scipio Slataper’s My Karst and My City, which was awarded the 2022 John Florio Prize by the Society of Authors (UK).
The body as an impediment, a prison for the soul, an obstacle to contemplation. I am the result of that education, of that culture. A culture that admires sacrifice and willingness for martyrdom.